A wave of fear swept through Amritsar as schools received bomb threats via email, with the Shatabdi Express also named in the sinister warnings. The city scrambled to secure sites, evacuating hundreds of students and deploying elite bomb detection teams.
Swift police response included campus searches and parental notifications, resulting in crowded school vicinities. Efforts to unmask the anonymous sender are underway, with cyber forensics leading the charge.
This marks yet another episode in a troubling trend. Amritsar has seen multiple school threats before, typically hoaxes. The pattern extends to other Punjab hubs like Chandigarh, Jalandhar, and Patiala, where false alerts to hospitals and offices have repeatedly disrupted normalcy and exhausted responders.
Authorities stress that no threat is dismissed lightly. Public advisories call for rumor avoidance and vigilance against odd behavior. As the probe deepens, Amritsar reaffirms its commitment to shielding children and travelers from such disruptive menaces.